Sudan: Why Should Sudan Hurry With Ending Citizenship of South Sudanese?

editorial

Although it was an agreement between the two nations, Sudan and South Sudan, to handle the citizenship issue in their respective territories responsibly and allowing Sudan to reassert its position as regards the estimated 500,000 South Sudanese plus who are still there some not ready to come to South Sudan immediately for several reasons while majority of them are willing to come to the lands of their ancestors, Al Bashir and his Islamist ministers seem pessimistic about the future of these former citizens in their former country.

They are saying that once 8th April is over, the half a million South Sudanese found in all parts of the Sudan would be considered foreigners. Consideration as foreigners should not make the government to mistreat them because in Sudan today there are many foreigners who are being accorded residence and South Sudanese will not be the first foreigners in Sudan.

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